Ten Minute Rule Bill

Measures to regulate the fees charged to homeowners by management companies

Measures to ensure shared facilities are of an adequate standard

Provision for the self-management of communal areas by residents, should they wish.

This is a major step forward in raising awareness of the issue in parliament, and we hope more generally as well.

It is not expected that a ten minute rule bill will be enacted, but it can do much to lay the foundation for government action, as Justin Madders successfully did with his bill around doubling ground rent leasehold issues.

The more support the bill has from MPs the more likely further action will arise. We urge all HorNets to email/write to their MP asking them to support the bill. Helen Goodman has provided a letter template, which you can use or customise if you wish.

HorNet are not too concerned that the title of the bill refers to freehold homes, we expect that any future legislation will cover estate charges for all tenures, and in all circumstances, not just new build estates. We will continue to promote the message that estate charges on peoples homes are the problem and fight for their abolition.

Thanks for the heads up. Looks like she hasn’t got the article published yet. Will feed this back. In the meantime, no reason not to use the template. If you are uncomfortable about sending a broken link, just delete that paragraph.

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Can you help us to succeeed?

Our Mission

To challenge the existing property laws which leave us open to exploitation, through: political lobbying, media attention and through the courts in a form of a UK test case.

Although we offer our members moral support, we are not qualified to give legal advice so cannot help in this way.

We encourage everyone to help each other by supporting the aims in our mission.

Join our groups to network and share information, help our campaign by taking action as on our Take Action page

Who are We??

We are a group of ordinary home owners who feel exploited by their respective land management companies on privately owned managed estates with charges. We were initially put in touch with each other either by the Home Owners Alliance or the Greenbelt Action Group. Our co-ordinators are Halima Ali and Cathy Priestley.

We feel that isolation is a problem for home owners and that a network for mutual support and exchange of information initially would help home buyers who find themselves inadvertently in this trap. We are campaigning for a change in the law to offer us protection and redress and ultimately scrap this model being used for residential properties.

We began with this site and a Facebook group for discussions (April 2016). People who prefer not to use Facebook can comment on The Buzz articles (public) in our forum (private), subscribe to our newsletter or simply contact us to let us know they are there.

Strength in numbers has succeeded in raising the profile of the issue and our voice is growing louder!

By 20th March 2019 we have over 4800 in our FaceBook group and 486 estates representing over 91,000 households.